The Daily Background

Okay, okay, mostly the trouble part.

Remember that business about the White House discovering 250 pages of emails that they somehow ‘lost’ and then ‘found’ and then turned over to Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald? Yeah well, more on them. Check this out:

The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s prewar Iraq intelligence, sources close to the investigation said.

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Cheney said he was unaware that Ambassador Wilson was chosen to travel to Niger to look into the uranium claims, and that he never saw a report Wilson had given a CIA analyst upon his return which stated that the Niger claims were untrue. He said the CIA never told him about Wilson’s trip.

However, the emails say otherwise, and will show that the vice president spearheaded an effort in March 2003 to attack Wilson’s credibility and used the CIA to dig up information on the former ambassador that could be used against him, sources said.

Oooooh. Go visit t r u t h o u t for the full story. It’s by Jason Leopold, who’s been doing some great independent reporting on the Plame leak for quite some time now.

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